artist
painting tropical Australia

underwater landscapes

underwater landscapes

still life

still life

landscapes

landscapes

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inspired by nature’s influence

Janet Morris is an Australian artist based in Port Douglas. Her work is shaped by time spent within the coastal and underwater environments of the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding rainforest, where observation gives way to memory, feeling, and atmosphere.

She paints coastal and underwater landscapes, along with small still life florals, moving between expansive, immersive scenes and quiet, intimate studies of form and colour.

Working in oils, she builds layered, fluid surfaces that explore light, movement, and transformation. Her work reflects a quiet dialogue between concealment and expression, and an ongoing awareness of the fragility of the natural world.

about Janet

“These works are not observed,
but remembered.”

— Janet Morris

Janet on Instagram.

View fullsize I was soooo close to painting over this one! Then I hung it in my guest bathroom where you see it up close and I loved it again 🧡🩵 (it’s quite big 78x98cm) and I’ve now got a favourite fish … which one is your fave? It’s a
View fullsize I don’t only love green glass 💚, blue glass 💙 is also my thing. So are the red ginger flowers that are profuse in my garden. Studio work ramping up for some lovely commissions and works for an exhibition in October with @port_douglas_artists
View fullsize A new commission piece from my studio. Letting the light shine through … love the dance of lumination through glass and that glass can be a vessel to hold flowers and leaves. What is not to love about glass and flowers? 💚🤍💛
View fullsize Spied last week at the @barrier.reef.tavern by the lovely @carolineyarr_sothebys … beautifully shown with directional lighting. I love seeing my artworks hanging in their final homes 🩵 … this one ‘love and light - a coral caress&
View fullsize ‘all the pretty flowers’ - water colour on 157g Japanese paper Study for a new body of work
View fullsize I was fortunate to see the late David Hockney’s last exhibition ‘A Year in Normandie’ at the Serpentine Gallery in London last month. He brought colour with gay abandon to the forefront and for me, colour is joy especially when exp
View fullsize Thank you to @port.douglas, writer Maura Mancini, editor Sarah Cullen and Chrissie McLaughlin from @port_douglas_artists for this wonderful editorial in the latest Port Douglas magazine. We have such an energetic and creative art group from our lit
View fullsize What a wonderful exhibition was had at Go Troppo this year with @port_douglas_artists as part of @pdcarnivale. Our diverse and talented group of artists appreciate the opportunity given by @douglasshirecouncil to show their artworks in the iconic and
View fullsize ‘Light on the reef’ Oil on linen 120 x 90 cm The largest work from my sell out exhibition in London. Thank you @ecobysonya and @sonyadriver for this amazing opportunity to show my work in London. Being able to share the natural beauty o
View fullsize Detail of a new art work showing at Go Troppo opening Monday 18th May 5.30pm 🥂 Come on down to the romantic and iconic Sugar Wharf in Port Douglas to see inside this historic building, there will be original art works from over 20 local artists fro
View fullsize A small glimpse of a new art work ‘Acropora high tide’ Whilst I am currently in London for the opening of my sold out show with @ecobysonya in Notting Hill, I also have some new art work showing in Port Douglas at Go Troppo with @port_d
View fullsize The lovely team from Eco by Sonya have printed these cards for my exhibition in London. Thank you for such a thoughtful detail to add context to my art 🙏🏼🩵 My hand written words printed on the back of the card This work ‘Below the light&rs
Janet Morris painting of white flowers in a brown glass vase on a table, dark background.

get in touch

Janet welcomes enquiries from collectors and the curious. Perhaps you’re interested in a commission, considering the right frame or shipping an artwork overseas from Australia.

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